How To Use Paraffin Wax

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Many people recall sealing jelly jars with alkane (bakery's wax, canning wax) to be old fashioned. It is withal, even so, a viable canning method for short time periods. Paraffin sealed jellies should be used within a couple of months. For longer periods, before utilise of canned goods, the two part method of a metallic ring and lid (in a hot canning bath) should be used for safety.

Prepare your jelly with the recipe of your choice. Pour the jelly into the sterilized glass jars, leaving ½ to 1 inch of space at the tiptop, for the paraffin.

Use a double boiler to melt the paraffin wax. If yous don't take i available, utilise a big pot and smaller pot inside. Fill the larger pot halfway with h2o, place the smaller pot with a chopped-upwards bar of alkane series wax inside, on superlative of the water in the larger pot. Bring the water to a eddy, as the wax melts. This procedure can be started equally the jelly making is virtually finished.

Identify a candy thermometer in the wax, keeping the temperature below 375 degrees F. Paraffin tin catch on fire if it becomes too hot. When the wax is completely melted information technology will have a clear, h2o-like consistency. At this time the jelly should accept set (become slightly solid) and cooled, somewhat.

Spoon the melted wax onto the top of the jelly in the jars, nearly upwardly to the jar top. Tilt the jars, a bit, to brand sure the wax has adhered to the sides of the jars. Allow the wax-topped jars to ready until the wax is opaque (white in colour and non come across through).

Place the jar lid over the meridian of the opaque paraffin and screw it on tight. As the wax and jelly cool further, the lid is pulled downward sealing the jelly in, and so information technology is safe for storage and later utilize.

Remove the lid so the layer of paraffin wax when you are ready to use the jelly. The wax should be solid and come out hands. Throw the wax away. If you see whatsoever mold on the wax bottom or jelly, the canned food is not fit for human consumption and could cause illness. Through all of the jelly in that jar abroad. If the jelly is fine, supercede the chapeau after the start use and store it in the fridge.